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LONDON (Reuters) - The United States will more than double its
security assistance for Yemen and Britain will host an international
meeting this month to seek ways of preventing the poorest Arab state
from becoming an al Qaeda stronghold.

WORLD

The moves highlighted mounting Western concern over Yemen after a
failed Christmas Day attempt to bomb a U.S. airliner by a Nigerian man
who said he had received training and equipment in the country that
borders Saudi Arabia.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen branch of Osama bin
Laden's network, has claimed responsibility for the attempt by Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab to ignite explosives hidden in his underwear as
his flight from Amsterdam approached Detroit.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday that Yemen
presented a regional and global threat as an incubator and potential
safe haven for terrorism.

Brown's office said he would host a high-level meeting in London on
January 28 to discuss countering radicalization in Yemen. The talks
will be held in parallel with an international conference on
Afghanistan the same day.

"The international community must not deny Yemen the support it needs
to tackle extremism," Brown said in a statement.

The increase in U.S. backing for Yemen was announced in Baghdad by
General David Petraeus, head of the U.S. Central Command.

"We have, it's well known, about $70 million in security assistance
last year. That will more than double this coming year," Petraeus told
a news conference.

SOMALI REINFORCEMENTS

U.S. officials have said they are looking at ways to expand military
and intelligence cooperation with Yemen in order to step up a
crackdown on al Qaeda militants there.

But a Pentagon spokesman this week described as "grossly exaggerated"
a report that Washington was preparing retaliatory strikes after the
Detroit plane incident.

Somalia's hardline Islamist rebel group al Shabaab said on Friday it
was ready to send reinforcements to al Qaeda in Yemen should the
United States carry out strikes.

"We call upon all Muslims to give a hand to our brothers in Yemen and
we, al Shabaab, are ready to send them reinforcements ... and
Inshallah (God willing) we shall win over America," said Sheikh
Mukhtar Robow Abuu Mansuur, a senior official of al Shabaab, which
Washington sees as an al Qaeda ally.

Somalia is separated from Yemen by the Gulf of Aden where Somali
pirates have hijacked a number of international ships.

Compounding the challenge from al Qaeda, Yemen faces a separatist
rebellion in the south and an insurgency by rebels from the minority
Shi'ite Zaidi sect in the north.

A Yemeni government source told Reuters on Friday that 11 Shi'ite
rebels, whom he described as "terrorists," had been killed in clashes
with the military and security forces.

The conflict, which has killed hundreds and displaced tens of
thousands, drew in neighboring Saudi Arabia in November when rebels
staged a cross-border incursion into the world's biggest oil exporter.

The multiple security threats facing Yemen's government have
intensified Saudi and Western concern that it could turn into an al
Qaeda haven and launch pad for international attacks -- a role played
by Afghanistan in the run-up to the September 11 attacks on the United
States in 2001.

Yemen's Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi said this week there could
be up to 300 al Qaeda militants in his country, some of whom may be
planning attacks on Western targets